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They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
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The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.
He who is brave is free.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
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The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
